Yahoo! Sports

Detroit’s Sports Rap Radio, The First All-Black-Led Sports Radio Station In The US, Has Been Shut Down — ’I Failed My People’

Created with good intention, Detroit, MI-based Sports Rap Radio has been shut down. “[This is] history-making,” Parker told CBS News at the time. “[It’s] groundbreaking, [and] we just believe that the ...
Black Enterprise

First All-Black-Led Sports Rap Station In The Country Debuts

“Just four years ago, there were no Black full-time sports hosts on the radio in Detroit,” Parker said. “In a city that’s nearly 80% Black, I looked at that as a problem.” Joining Parker in ownership ...
Yahoo! Sports

Detroit’s Sports Rap Radio Makes History As The First All-Black-Led Sports Radio Station In The US

Detroit, MI, has done it again, and it’s only right that one of the Blackest cities in America becomes the home to the first all-Black-led sports radio station in the nation! Sports Rap Radio on AM ...
Yahoo

6 songs that were shunned by country radio and rejected by Nashville — but still became hits

Kacey Musgraves at Lollapalooza in 2019 and Beyoncé at the 2025 Grammys.Josh Brasted/FilmMagic; Sonja Flemming/CBS via Getty Images Kacey Musgraves recently opened up about the backlash to her 2013 ...
Awful Announcing

First all-Black sports radio station launches in Detroit

History was made in Detroit this week, when Rob Parker launched the first all-Black sports radio station in the country. Parker announced the endeavor earlier this year after assembling a team that ...
Metro Times

Black-owned Sports Rap Radio readies to launch in Detroit

A landmark event in Black history — no, scratch that, American history — will take place in our city Monday morning. And you can listen in. Sports Rap Radio, the nation’s first sports-talk radio ...